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June 3 1924. 1,496,573

W. WRIGHT EXTERIORLY CAPPING CONTAINERS Filed July 25, 1923 Patented .lune 3, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILBUR L. WRIGHT. OF FULTON, NEW YORK. ASSIGNOE T0 OSWEGO FALLS CORPORA- TION, OF FULTON, NEW YORK. A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

EXTERIORLY CAPPING CONTAINERS.

v Application tiled `Tuly 23,

Be it known that l, VVILBUR L. WRIGHT, a citizen iof the United States of America, and resident of Fulton,- county of Oswego,L State of New York, have invented certain new and i,useful Improvements in and Re- .lating to lxteriorly GappingContainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fibrous such as paper or paper material cover all or hood caps for bottles and other containers; and the objects and nature of the invention will be readily understood by those skilled 1n the art in the light of the following explanations of the accompanying drawings that illustrate what l now believe to be the preferred mechanical expression or embodiment ot' myiirvention from among other forms, constructions, arrangements or combinations within the spirit and scope thereof.

Au object of the invention is to' provide a fibrous material hood or skirted ca with a series of applied means for positively holding the cap skirt or flange contracted under the bottle or containerl rim and the cap thereby normally confined on the bottle mouth, and particularly such means that are necessarily removed with the cap and that will not remain on the bottle neck after removal of the cap for subsequent removal by the bottler.

With this and other objects in view, my invention consists incertain novel features of construction, arrangement, or combination,A as more full and particularly set forth and specified hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof:

'Fig'. 1 is a perspective of the mouth portion of a container exteriorly capped in ac-I cordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the showing of Fig. 1.'

Fig. 3 is a top elevation of the disclosure of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, I show any container, such as bottle. 1, having its mouth surround ed by an exterior annular rim forming a downwardly faein shoulder.

I show the mout] of this bottle exteriorly covered and protected by a socalled hood or coverall cap composed of suitable usually comparatively inexpensive sheet fibrous material such as a suitable commercial paper.

1923. Serial No. 653,196.

rl`his cap is usually imperforate and hooded, skirted or ianged to extend down onto the bottle neck and contract under the rim and to provide a usually fiat round central top portion a, that `spans and covers the top opening;l of the bottle and rests on the rim and which at its exposed top face is usually provided with printed or other advertising display mutter. or other indicia.

The annular depending skirt orlinnge of the cap is ol' a length to extend down around and to a point below the exterior rinl of the bottle mouth or neck and thus provide the depending' securing portion capable of being contracted hold the cap on the bottle mouth.

A tial disk cut from sheet paper. is drawn or otherwise shaped by suitable` dies or lorminglu-ads, to form the flanged or skilttd rap. fornied from the fiat disk on the bottle mouth to llc covered thereby, 0I the Cap Can he previously formed with a flaring iiange or skirt. and thus applied over the bottle mouth so that the lower edge portion of the lskirt can be contracted below the bottle rim With the surplus material taken up by the formation of tucks. pleats or folds.

In applying the cap to the bottle mouth, the foxning head in contracting the cap skirt under the bottle rim 'or 'shoulder gathers the surplus material of' the skirt, at intervals around the circle of the skirt, into vertical or longitudinal separate tucks, pleats, corrugations or folds 6, and render the same permanent by the application ofl exterior fasteners, binders or clips 5 compressed thereon. In the particulai1 example illustrated, I happen to show six such pleats or outward folds 6, (but do not wish to so limit my invention) more or less uniformly spaced apart ardund the cap skirt, and I show separate clips or fasteners 5, one for each fold, arranged, transversely thereof and pinched thereon or otherwise, to tightly hold the opposite walls of pleats, tucks or folds together and against separation. In other words, the separate clamps, clips` orfasteners 5, permanently hold the folds compressed or collapsed and against ex ansion, and hence the securing portion o the cap skirt contracted under the bottle neck shoulder to secure the cap on the bottle mouth, against deformation or stretching under abnormal or adverse conditions.

The skirted cap can be thus under said rim to secure and by and remove with thecap, and is is a feature of importance as the diliic lty arising; by reason of metal rings remainin on the bottle necks is thereby avoided heee encircling cap fastening metal bands and rings that remain ou the bottle neck, aimstitute a source of expense, anno ance, and sometimes injury to the hands an fingers:`

According to my invention, I form the hood' skirt with. several lon itiidinal spaced relatively-large lvertical tuc s o1' folds, arranged in a series around the circle of the skirt, each separately fastened by an suitable applied means, all removable with the cap, with these tucks or folds arranged to so take u the surface material of the skirt as to hol the skirt tightly contracted under the bottle mouth rim and thereby maintain the cap confined on the bottle mouth. The ti htly compressed 'and fastened tucks or fo ds do not interfere with the teari or loosening of the skirt reparatory to` pu ing the ca from the bott e mouth In fact, if so'desired, where the compressed tucks. or folds project outwardly, as in the specic example illustrated (although I do not wish to so imit all features of my invention)4 any one of such projecting compressed tucks or folds may be vgrasped by the lingers for exerting on the skirt the for'ce necessary to expand the .same as by tearing or removal of a eli so that the ca can be stripped, torn or of erwise remove from the bottle carryin the clips therewith. i

n the particular example illustrated, the fasteners are in the form of Ushaped metal clips that are pinched on the tucks or folds t'otightly com ress the same, but T do not wish to so limit my invention, as the tucks or folds can be co ressed and fastened by various individual asteners.

These individual metal cli s can be variously formed'and can be rapp ied to the cap by various means. For instance, the forming or gathering head that contracts the skirt of the aper cap to andaround the bottle rim and) neck, can take up the surplus paper of the skirt and form the several large tucks or folds and can be provided with mans to then pinch the separate clips on such folds to maintain the same compressed and form a positive seal of the skirt under the bottle rim. It will be noted, of course, that any desired or suitable number of these These separate fasteners or clips. aiypwrried folds or* tucks that areA or clipped, can be provided, notwithstanding the particular number'and arrangement that 1 happen to show in the drawings for purposee of explanation.

Although I do not wish to so limit all features of my invention, it will be noted that the pinched-oli clips of the particular example illustrated, can be individually stripped from the folds or pleats by the fingers and hence, the cap can be released for rlemoval by stripping off one or more oflsuch c i s.

arious changes, modifications and variations might be resorted to without departing from the s irit and' scope of my invention and hence do not wish to lim-it my invention to the exact disclosures hereof.

What I claim is:-

1. A fibrous sheet material hood cap having the surplus material of the contracted pgrtion of its skirt forming lds` provided3 with indivi ual fastening means compressing such folds and removable with the cap.

2. A sheet paper hood cap havin its skirt irmed with spaced tucks or folds eld compressed by separate individual clips pinched thereon.

y 3. A; hood cap having the securing portion of its skirt gathered into relatively large longitudinal tucks each independently held compressed by individual applied fastening means. y 4. A paper hood ca having portions of its skirt gathered into xfolds, each fold being held compressed by a metal clip, a separate chp being provided for each fo'ld, the cli s being disconnected and removable witht e cap.

5. A pa hood ca having its skirt formed wit i longitudine folds or pleats and U-shaped metal clips pinched thereon compressing said folds against expansion.

6. A paper hood cap having its skirt formed with spaced longitudinal pleats or folds. each compressed and separately and individually fastened against expansion.

7. A paper hood cap having its skirt formed with pleats each secured against expansion by an' individua removable clip.

In testimon whereof I ave hereunto set my hand at July, 1923. y

WILBUR L. WRIGHT.

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